After three WNBA stars showed up to the Met Gala, @edgeofsports.bsky.social wonders that as the league gets richer and more popular, will its politics lose its edge? www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Happy 250th to a country that resembles a vat of mayonnaise left on a radiator.

My latest piece @thenation.com, ] is about choosing celebrity over solidarity. "WNBA Players Should Have Picketed, Not Attended the Met Gala" www.thenation.com/article/soci...

We’ve been too accustomed to taking as truism that Amen is better than Asur. Reorder the Thompson Twins! Doctor Doctor!

The doc “Everyone Is Lying to You for Money” that just **crushes** the crypto scam economy is hilarious, educational, and excellent.

On this week's pod, I interviewed Austin McCoy about his tremendous book "Living in a D.A.I.S.Y. Age: The Music, Culture and World De La Soul Made." I felt like a kid in a candy store talking to someone who knew so much about a group that meant so much to me. www.thenation.com/podcast/cult...

If you've ever played hoops, watching this is like getting pixie dust blown in your face. My Lord, the pros are so talented. www.youtube.com/shorts/cpr8n...

Over the next couple of weeks I’m going to share the advance blurbs we’ve received for my new book “The People’s Historian: The Outsized Life Of Howard Zinn” (out August 4th.) Please, preorder a copy. Preorders are *vital* to making sure that a book gets attention upon its release 👊

19 points in the second half. Was like a joke that goes on so long it morphs from a groan to a giddy thrill. That was art.

Tomorrow is May Day of course so I took a break from sports/politics and wrote the following for @thenation.com Happy May Day Eve. May Day and the Reclamation of the Jewish Radical Tradition www.thenation.com/article/acti...

Does Derek Jeter really need to do gambling ads?

Everyone should follow ZEP

The Big Lie in the phrase 'don't mix sports and politics' is that it's not sports & politics they object to. It's sports and a certain kind of politics. Speak out against police violence or Israel's war on Gaza and it's 'stick to sports.' But bleat pro-war patriotic bombast and you're a hero.

Today: Civil Rights groups issue a World Cup travel warning. Tomorrow: I will lecture @resistanceschool.bsky.social: "The Beautiful Game, Ugly Controversies" online course, "World Cup and Global Politics 101" Today is the registration deadline! www.resistancestudiesseries.com/wcpf101-regi...

I don’t care for Stephen A Smith but I understand why he appeals. I don’t understand the appeal of Pat McAfee at all. Like a sentient ham.

Can we dispense with the fiction that the NBA is some kind of crypto-leftist op?

DID THE FIFA PEACE PRIZE MEAN NOTHING AT ALL ??? AMERICAN SPRING MADE IN USA 2026 www.theguardian.com/football/202...

'In May 2024, Cloud told the ESPN site Andscape, “There’s a genocide happening. People are scared to use that word—it is what it is. It’s a genocide. It’s ethnic cleansing. It’s intentional.… We’re not paying attention.”'

My answer at this point in time is “no, she’s not.” I’m open to being wrong about it! I wrote a thread on this the other day but maybe I’ll write something slightly more longform. I do understand why people are asking the question tho!

My latest piece @thenation.com asks the question: is WNBA free agent Natasha Cloud, the social conscience of the sports world, being "blackballed" for standing for a Free Palestine? www.thenation.com/article/acti...

The coming "joyless World Cup" just keeps the hits coming. www.huffpost.com/entry/italy-...

Red Card: The 2026 World Cup, Sportswashing, and the FIFA Greed Machine is now available for pre-order, with an introduction by @edgeofsports.bsky.social orbooks.com/catalog/red-...

On artistic integrity : Dirk Diggler > Mark Wahlberg. At least Dirk thought that "we can do better." Mark with every cash-grab-crap movie says, "No we can't."

Read that again. This Louisiana bill forces homeless people to choose between jail and "treatment"—and if they can't pay for the latter, they will be forced to perform unpaid labor. The historical precedents are clear: convict leasing, Black Codes, debtor's prison.

52% of men have a sports betting account like fan duel or draft kings. The addiction economy of sports - picking the meat off of what’s left in the wallets of fans - is a growing sector of our economy. So we got *that* going for us. Which is nice. 🤪

Really looking forward to discussing 1960s biographies with @edgeofsports.bsky.social, Sasha Archibald, and Teishan Latner tomorrow at the @oah.org's annual meeting (12:45 PM-2:15 PM).

A tournament that’s been hosted by all manner of despots, fascists, and villains was never joyless. The joy has always been FIFA’s secret sauce. This is the first time there will be a joyless World Cup. Everything he touches….

Cohosting a local radio show that’s just music from the movies for the next couple hours Takomaradio.org if you want to check out some really great tunes

Definitely looking forward to reading the new book of the brilliant @julesboykoff.bsky.social on the upcoming World Cup. Also with a foreword by the legendary author and world renowned »The American Dream« Dusty Rhodes expert @edgeofsports.bsky.social Dave Zirin.

❗Excited to announce my new book "Red Card: The 2026 World Cup, Sportswashing, & the FIFA Greed Machine," with an introduction by @edgeofsports.bsky.social. Hope you'll consider pre-ordering (with 15% discount) via @orbooks.bsky.social: orbooks.com/catalog/red-...

Very proud to be on Chenjerai’s pod!

Angel Reese is going to own the Atlanta sports scene like nothing since the Jamal Anderson era Dirty Bird. Also Pete Hegseth is an open white supremacist and we normalize is cruel, dumb, rapist, war criminal fascist-ass at our peril. Separate thoughts, but.....are they?

Thank you to the @zinnedproject.bsky.social! Starting to get blurbs in and absolutely cannot wait to set this book free in August. Puleeze preorder!

Found one! www.godaintpetty.com/products/i-w...

So who’s making the “I’m gonna beat Geno’s ass” t-shirts? He really went after her and the result is that Geno is diminished and the Dawn Staley legend just grew a foot. The takeaway is clearly don’t fuck with North Philly.

"I don’t really be on social media. I don’t be on Twitter, because that is a toxic app. So I couldn’t tell you, honestly, but I’m going to say: for athletes, if you play sports, or women’s sports, stay off Twitter. Because those people are crazy on there."

ICE has kept a disabled double amputee prisoner for over 14 months. Rodney Taylor has been denied access to his prosthetic legs. Forced to crawl across dirty floors to access food. Placed in solitary. Denied medical accommodations. They’re killing him & he needs the community to make noise!

There was once a time when the Washington Post had a sports page. One of my top 1% favorite columnists was Mike Wise. So thrilled the Wise-Guy is riding again! About LeBron James, his unprecedented career, and the measure of greatness (also STFU Geno. Apologize & move on) www.ms.now/opinion/lebr...

Shut the fuck up Geno

Perplexing that Trump’s acting AG choice to replace Bondi for failing to cover up his Epstein file rape accusations is Blanche, whose failure as Trump’s defense lawyer in the face of E Jean Carroll’s rape accusations resulted in a judgment that Trump is a rapist.

Wrote something about this noxious friendship between Donald Trump and the one person on earth for whom he seems to hold empathy; Tiger Woods www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Doing a pod w/a film savant on films hat *either* poorly reviewed or ignored. I limited myself to gangster films made in my lifetime. I chose a movie that starred two eventual Oscar winners, two future nominees and one Golden Globe winner. Forgotten wunderkind director, Irish mob. You know it?

Derrick White is the first Celtic I’ve liked since….damn. Dana Barros?

Billy Joel was an amateur boxer. "We Didn't Start The Fire" contains references to three boxers: Sugar Ray Robinson, Sonny Liston, & Floyd Patterson. But in this boomer panorama, there's no mention of Cassius Clay or Muhammad Ali. There's gotta be a funky backstory here. I'm going to crack this case

while it’s the same category, this is orders of magnitude worse than what noem was fired for

It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you. If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can. Everyone give this a share after.

Just picking the meat off the bones until Trump descends into his bunker.

Pictured is anti-trans avatar Kristi Coventry, head of the IOC. I spoke to Harrison Browne, the first trans pro hockey player, about what Coventry’s ruling to ban trans athletes and “gender test” [their phrase] women, ultimately means www.thenation.com/podcast/soci...